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Is there a reason it needs to be started as root? In similar self-hosted apps I’ve run into many issues from having scripts run as root. Often the individual apps don’t play nicely enough with each other.

Otherwise it looks interesting, I like the UI and the demo instance shows the UX well.




Agree, I feel as though it should, itself, be a container, that manages a docker-compose file, then manages the apps using appropriate docker-compose commands. All tested against podman as well.

Then the tool could be used readily on the many docker appliances (Synology, Qnap, etc.).


My guess would be docker is the reason


You don't need to run a script with sudo to use docker. This is targeted at tech-agnostic users, really odd misalignment of goals to ask folks who don't know what they're doing to 'sudo run.sh'.


Standard docker installation requires sudo to start containers


You can add your user to the docker group, which does require sudo, but only once.




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